Wikipedia:Directories and indexes
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The following is a list ofWikipedia's directories and indexes.New to Wikipedia? See thecontributing to Wikipediapage orour tutorialfor everything you need to know to get started.
Administration pages
Administrative namespacesare intended for use by editors or by automated tools for the administration and governance of the encyclopedia.
Protocols and conventions
- List of policies
- A descriptive list of official policies for "English Wikipedia".(Policieshave wide acceptance among editors and describe standards that all users should normally follow.)
- List of guidelines
- A descriptive list of official guidelines for "English Wikipedia".(Editors should attempt to followguidelines,though they are best treated with common sense, and occasional exceptions may apply.)
- Manual of Style contents
- A descriptive list of the pages which make up the style manual for "English Wikipedia".(The MoSoutlines Wikipedia's house style for articles.)
Assistance
- FAQs index
- An index of Frequently Asked Questions by topics.
- Help directory
- A massive descriptive list of almost all of Wikipedia's informative, instructional and "how to" pages.
- Help menu site map
- An index of the pages that make up thehelp menu.
- Reader's index
- An index forreadersof Wikipedia.
- Requests directory
- A descriptive list of the interactive services and assistance that can be requested on Wikipedia.(Pages where editors can ask questions and request assistance from people who are familiar with the policies and guidelines covered by each individual forum.)
- Tips library
- Wikipedia's tips directory, where you can digest how to use Wikipedia in bite-sized morsels. See alsoStyletips,for bite-size chunks from the Manual of Style.
- Tools index
- A listing of Wiki-tools intended to simplify, make more efficient, or provide additional functionality to Wikipedians.
Wikipedia community
- Community portal
- The main directory for information on collaborations, on-going tasks, and news about English Wikipedia.
- Dashboard
- An index of the current discussions and requests taking place throughout English Wikipedia.
- Department directory
- A directory of all the different divisions of Wikipedia.
- Maintenance
- A directory of maintenance departments alongside open tasks and backlogs.
- Essay directory
- A colossal descriptive list of Wikipedia namespace essays.(Essayscontain information, advice or opinions of one or more editors to aid or comment on the encyclopedia.)
- Editor's index
- An enormous index of the Wikipedia community, intended to help find anything not in the encyclopedia itself.(list hundreds of essays, guidelines, policies, help pages, and more.)
- Noticeboards directory
- A descriptive list of Wikipedia's interactive noticeboards.
- WikiProjects directory
- An index of WikiProjects by topics.(WikiProjectsare groups of contributors who want to work together as a team to improve Wikipedia.)
MediaWiki software
- Wiki markup
- A list of wiki markup – alongside implantation tips.(Also known as wikitext or wikicode, is the syntax and keywords used by Wikipedia to format a page.)
- Templates
- An index of templates used within Wikipedia.
- HTML in wikitext
- A list of HTML elements, tags and their attributes used in Wikipedia.
Locutions
- Abbreviations
- A list of abbreviations commonly used on Wikipedia.
- Edit summary legend
- A list of commonly used edit summary abbreviations.(An edit summary is a brief explanation of an edit to a Wikipedia page.)
- Glossary
- A list of terms (slang) commonly used by editors during discussions. See alsoReader's glossary.
- List of shortcuts
- A gigantic list of pages and their "abbreviated redirects".(Ashortcutis a specialized type of redirect that provides an abbreviated wikilink to a page or one of its sections.)
Encyclopedia proper
Content namespacesare intended for use by readers as part of the encyclopedia.
Content
Thevast content (articles)of the encyclopedia has been organized into several different "table of contents" as seen below.
Types
Topics
- Current events
- Reference
- Culture
- Geography
- Health
- History
- Mathematics
- Nature
- People
- Philosophy
- Religion
- Society
- Technology
Places, people, and times
Indices
Content administration
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